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(1990)

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7/10
One of Wong Jing's self featuring action movie
ebiros223 January 2006
Wong Jing's talent and style is evident in this action/comedy. He plays the role of Fatty, a likable character who has many talents including gambling, and scheming plots to turn the table on anyone he chooses. He has a rather simple minded friend Kung (Danny Lee) who's a police inspector, who's also a friend of an under cover cop Ma Qun (Anthony Wong). Ma Qun was on an assignment to entrap Panther Wong (Fong Lung) who's a corrupt drug dealer. Ma succeeds in sending Wong to prison, but Wong swears revenge, and proceeds to send two assassins (Agnes Aurelio) and (Kwok Shing Hong). Aurelio shoots Ma's daughter while Kwok rapes and kills his pregnant wife, and makes him dumb and blind by making Ma drink nitric acid and goring his eyes. Kung, and Fatty swears vengeance for the sake of Ma and goes on a scheme to entrap Wong this time with his fellow triad gang members.

Wong Jing's talent shows in this movie as plot is slick, actors well chosen, girls pretty, cinematography superb, and he's also a good actor. Wong Jing can write pretty gory rape and murder scene (as in his "Naked Killer"), and he can also write comedy. In Hong Kong cinema's tradition of throwing in everything that can be entertaining, this movie has both. As a second generation writer, he could have been famous just on his writing talent alone, but he shows talent in other areas as well. This movie is one of them, and is one of the better entertainment to come from Hong Kong and Wong Jing.
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7/10
Typical but decent
Leofwine_draca8 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
THE BIG SCORE is a typical Hong Kong action flick with diverse elements mainly focused on comedy and gambling - two topics perenially popular with local audiences. It starts off with Anthony Wong playing an undercover cop bringing down a crime boss, then includes a shocking scene involving rape and child murder. At this point the tone shifts with Danny Lee and Wong Jing teaming up as partners to bring down the aforementioned boss and Wong is forgotten about. Lee feels on autopilot here but Jing shines in a likeable comic relief role and there's some decent action added to the mix. The scenes with the blind sister are particularly funny and the gambling is handled in an entertaining fashion. No great shakes when it comes to originality or taste, but it all comes together nicely come the end.
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9/10
Odd team of Danny Lee and Wong Jing fight evil gangsters!
Captain_Couth29 September 2004
Big Score (1990) was a strange film. Danny Lee and Wong Jing team up to make of the strangest action films I have ever seen. Wong Jing wrote and directed this film, he also co-stars as a shady and bumbling individual who's forced to confront the people who have maimed his best friend and killed the poor guys family. They've also made his life extremely miserable. Danny Lee plats a cop (what else?) who's job is to protect Wong Jing ( who's character is aptly named Soft) from a gang of sadistic gangsters (one of them is an amazonian Filipina king boxer!). As in all of Wong Jing films, the villains are just plain rotten and they love to hurt and kill people. A truly strange action movie with a lot of out of place slapstick comedy and two fisted action!

I found this movie to be quite interesting. There's never a dull moment when Wong Jing's around and Danny Lee provides the action and excitement. Anthony Wong has a small role in this film as an ill fated individual who crosses paths with the gang. If you like action and comedy you can't go wrong with this film, I highly recommend this picture.

Check it out!
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